OBITUARY NOTICES.

PAUL HENRY LEECE, born 1809, died July 21st,
1885, buried in Kirk Braddan Cemetery, was the youngest son of
John Leece, of
Ballamona, Braddan. He was educated at the old School, at
Ballakinnish, in the same parish, after which he was engaged in
business in Douglas and Dublin. In 1840, on the death of the last of
his elder brothers, he returned home to assist in the management of
the estate to which he succeeded on his father's death in 1849. In
1851, he married Mary Burnet Ballantyne, and has issue three sons and
two daughters. The Sheading of Middle elected him as one of its
representatives in the House of Keys, on the 12th of March, 1872, and
again on the 26th of March, 1881. During the last few year his health
gradually failed, and consequently gave in his resignation to the
Speaker of the Keys, in June, 1885, to the great regret both of his
colleagues and his constituents. His death, which soon followed his
resignation, was doubtless accelerated by the sad news of the
drowning of his youngest son Frank, by the capsizing of a boat in the
Mersey, on the 20th of June.

MICHAEL FINCH COSNAHAN, retired Commander, R.N., son of the late
Deemster Cosnahan, died at Ramsgate, on the 15th of December, aged
95.